Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

I believe in singing.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Men are what their mothers made them.

God helps those who help themselves.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Faith never makes a confession.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

They say miracles are past.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.